We give three examples of fields concerning the Northcott property on elements of small height: The first one has the Northcott property but its Galois closure does not even satisfy the Bogomolov property. The second one has the Northcott property and is pseudo-algebraically closed, i.e. every variety has a dense set of rational points. The third one has bounded local degree at infinitely many rational primes but does not have the Northcott property.